Burr is coming to Savannah for Graveface Records and Psychotronic Film Society’s FrightFest, a horror movie marathon
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Keep Savannah Weird: Save the Psychotronic Film Society!
ON FRIDAY, Savannah film aficionados will unite to celebrate and save one of the city’s treasures. The Psychotronic Film Society, the organization devoted to screening unusual and forgotten films, has […]
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Aggressive Civility and other important newspeak
Jim Reed and Phillips Reynolds Price have co-founded the new social action organization, which not only makes a fabulous hashtag but stages events and sells swag to benefit the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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The Holy Mountain
Before the principal photography began, Jodorowsky and his wife spent a week with no sleep, guided by a Japanese Zen master
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A blast of vintage noir
Blast of Silence, an extremely well–regarded film noir from 1961, doesn’t really have any recognizable stars. The movie was written and directed by Allen Baron, who went on to make […]
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Free cheese for all!
It could be argued that Plan 9 From Outer Space, the craptastic pinnacle of writer/director Ed Wood’s career, is the raison d’Être for the Psychotronic Film Society. Jim Reed’s occasional […]
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Alternative Cinema Weekend
Savannah still might not have an independent movie theater, but for fans of alternative cinema, the lineup of local film screenings this weekend might pass as a reasonable facsimile of […]
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Movies Savannah won’t miss any longer
The Psychotronic Film Society’s indie film series “Movies Savannah Missed,” which screens new, limited run films that never appeared at any area Cineplex, continues this week and through the winter […]
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Review: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
There’s an expectation among some American moviegoers that foreign films, particularly those with subtitles, are boring, inaccessible works that sacrifice action in order to search for elusive higher meaning. The […]
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Prepare to be scared
Scary movies have always had a special place in the hearts of filmmakers and audiences. Even in the earliest days of cinema, tales of supernatural terror quickly rose to the […]
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2009 Savannah Jewish Film Fest begins
IT’S BEEN six years since Savannah’s Jewish community sponsored the First Annual Joan and Murray Gefen Memorial Savannah Jewish Film Festival — the initial funding for which came through a […]